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Hereditary hemochromatosis in liver transplantation.
Liver transplantation and surgery : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society - 1 Jan 1999
Fiel M I, Schiano T D, Bodenheimer H C, Thung S N, King T W, Varma C R, Miller C M, Brunt E M, Starnes S, Prass C, Wolff R K, Bacon B R
Abstract excerpt
A candidate gene, HFE, was recently described in patients with hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) and found to contain a missense mutation leading to a cysteine to tyrosine substitution (C282Y). A second mutation, H63D, was also found in the gene. This study was undertaken to determine the HFE genotype in liver transplant recipients clinically diagnosed with HH and those incidentally found to have increased iron...
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